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2022-6-27

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Duran, Anıl Ayseli

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The purpose of the study was to investigate the views and experiences of middle school mathematics teachers regarding technology integration. How they use technology, their perceived benefits of it, difficulties that they face, their ways of overcoming the difficulties, and teachers’ suggestions that would be helpful for all teachers were determined based on their experiences. Qualitative research was conducted with nine middle school mathematics teachers using the snowball sampling method. The participants who actively use technology in their lessons work in public schools in Turkey. The data of the current study were collected in the 2021-2022 fall semester. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect the data. The findings of the study showed that teachers use technology to enhance the visibility of content, enrich the lesson process, and engage students. According to the findings, teachers found technology beneficial in terms of students’ academic development, students’ affective development, providing convenience for the lesson process, and teachers’ development. Moreover, according to their experiences, barriers to technology use in mathematics classrooms were determined as student-related barriers, teacher-related barriers, time management issues, and technical and infrastructural problems. Their ways of overcoming student-related challenges were determined by guiding students and being prepared. For the teacher-related challenges, their ways of overcoming were determined by being prepared, their instant solutions, and rewarding. Instant solutions and being prepared were defined as ways of time management issues, and instant solutions, technical assistance, and using textbooks and materials were defined as ways of overcoming technical and infrastructural problems. Their ways of overcoming these difficulties may be a good guide for the teachers who face them. Lastly, the participants argued that the use of technology in schools is not sufficient. They asserted the need for organizing seminars, motivating teachers’ technology use, writing projects, support from school administration, collaborating with other teachers, making effective technological tools available, and improving students’ technology use for increasing the use of technology. The implications of the study based on the findings offer some considerations about ways of overcoming the difficulties in using technology, and increasing technology use in schools.

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Technology Integration, Technology Use, Middle School Mathematics Teachers, Teacher’s Views, Benefits, Barriers

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/98609

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis